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- tommyo0
It's not that being told not to do something is an attack on our individual freedoms. Fine, tell me not to do it and I'll think about it. What I have a problem with is the notion that gov is allowed to tax me on these things, and justify their doing so by telling me that I need to now pay them for my choices. Here, how about this. Gov can tax me for the sins they determine and 100% of that tax goes directly to the nearest hospital where I bought a pack of smokes. I'm fine with that system. That sort of system makes sense because it actually goes back to helping the common good. But this levy of taxes on a pack of cigarettes that then goes into all sorts of bullshit programs that have nothing to do with their justification of the tax in the first place is, well, basically, stealing.
- The evil is in the spending and not so much the collecting (to a point) than.TheBlueOne
- Well both, but yeah do you think politicians would keep adding taxes to shit if they knew they weren't going to control it?tommyo
- I just want to know what exactly these use taxes are going to. If your reason is because it effects health, then I want mytommyo
- taxes put toward health. Not building a museum 500 miles away.tommyo
- You'd still bitch about taxes :DDrBombay
- I would because it's unconstitutional.tommyo
- But if I HAVE to pay it.. do it so it makes sense.tommyo